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What Is Reddit?

It is a multilingual social platform founded by Steve Huffman in 2005. The Reddit community has the power to drive a massive amount of traffic to your website and become a great source to your business.

Here are 5 ways you can drive traffic from Reddit.

Keep it relevant

If you want to drive a large amount of traffic from Reddit, you have to keep every post relevant to the users.

This means that the more that you can tailor your posts to the subreddit that you’re posting in, the better. Avoid posting content that addresses too broad of an audience.

This requires you to spend some time on research into your subreddit and see what kind of posts people like.

Only post good content

If you want to drive traffic from Reddit there is only one rule, submit only best content. Short and generic content will not perform well. It will also get down-voted and you’ll lose any valuable reputation points (karma) that you have.

Only post content that is in-depth, unique, well-written, helpful and actionable. Wherever you post your article, Reddit users are going to click on it to check it out. What they think of it (either upvote or down vote) will dictate your results.

Stay out of “Hot” areas

Don’t start getting greedy. When you see that its only take less than one minute to upload your content, and your natural thought is “I should be doing this all the time!”

But that’s where the “Hot” spot is. Stay out of it. This means just posted a link in subreddit, let it rest for a while. Take two-to-three weeks before you post another link.

Have some fun while doing it

remember, this is where you can’t be a marketer, you have to be a Redditor. This is where your other guys’ are terrible at getting traffic from Reddit.

Increase your karma by posting a helpful or funny comment on other posts. This doesn’t mean you have to spend hours on end seemingly wasting time on the site.

Don’t just start promotion on your first post: This should go without saying, but if you’re new to a subreddit, be sure to post a few other things in that there first before you decide to promote anything of your own.

You may think that if you don’t promote your site repeatedly in the same Subreddit that you’ll be fine. But this is yet another big reddit no-no.

Don’t over-promote

If you post links to the same domain name too often you run a huge risk. reddit’s automatic spam filters will blacklist your domain, so that if anyone posts it, it won’t show up. They can also “ghost” your account which is a special kind of punishment for spammers.

So, what about you? Have you had any good or bad experience with Reddit? Tell us in the comment section.